My Bio

                                                                                                          John C. Morgan 

John C. Morgan was born in 1970 and raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY.  He comes from a very creative and artistic family.  His mother designed and sewed her own clothes, his father played bass guitar, his sister loves music and is an event planner and his brother is an aspiring writer and dabbles in art himself.  Although the creative gene was active in his parents and siblings, Morgan didn't find his niche until 1991.  “I was looking through a magazine and came across this picture that captured how I felt.  It was a guy sitting in the dark and he looked alone and mad.  That is how I was feeling at the time so I drew it.  The picture came out great and it was like a weight was lifted off of me.”  That feeling was inspired by the death of his mother in 1989 from lung cancer.  “She supported me in everything I did and I knew she would support my art so I began to create.

Inspired by music and magazines, Morgan has created pieces that he describes as “contemporary with a little realism mixed in.”  Using watercolor pencils for shadowing, charcoal for dimension, pastels and oil paint, he creates images that speak to the viewer.  “What I want them to get is a sense of quality and for the person to see something in themselves or a memory of something from their past.”

In his daily life, Morgan socializes with those he works with but he also can't let the day go by without doodling.  Art to him is a sense of accomplishment.  Through his art, he speaks to the world and shows how he sees it.  Morgan is a self-taught artist constantly at work on his craft.  He takes his time until everything is right in the piece and no more strokes are needed.  Morgan currently studies at The Art Students League of New York.

John’s Work has appeared in the following exhibitions sponsored by Savae Inc.:

           Face the Image                          2008

           From A Male Perspective         2009